About the Project
Shonda Rhimes is perhaps the most successful woman working in television today. She is the creator of such mega-hits as Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder, among others. Shondaland, as her production company is known, dominates primetime Thursday nights on ABC, a feat unmatched in TV history. She herself was named as Time magazine’s “100 People who Shape the World.” And she wrote Crossroads. That’s like hearing Aaron Sorkin wrote Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. How did this happen? We had to know! But were too lazy to Google. So we made it up.
Terrible movies of the past have found new life in recent years, thanks to podcasts like How Did This Get Made? and The Flop House, screenings like The Benson Interruption, and books like So Bad, It’s Good. We even know people who host their own bad movie nights at home! And make no mistake: Crossroads is a bad movie. From the Pepsi product placements to the terrible lip syncing to the miscarriage – THERE IS A MISCARRIAGE IN THE BRITNEY SPEARS MOVIE. Whose idea was that? Shonda’s? Britney’s? Shonda’s boyfriend at the time who is remarkably similar to President Fitzgerald Grant of television’s Scandal? That’s the sort of question our show will attempt to answer*. All of the Shondaland characters will make appearances, as well as Britney herself, as the voice of God. We have a lot of fun imagining the early career of one Ms. Shonda Rhimes, and the people who inspired her along the way.
Production Team
